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Bill Richardson — famously called a ‘Judas’ by a Clinton loyalist for backing Barack Obama over Hillary Rodham Clinton in the contentious Democratic presidential primary — says he’s not concerned that Bill Clinton continues to hold a grudge against him.

“It could be pretty much a permanent fissure. But that’s politics, that’s OK,” Richardson told National Public Radio’s Renee Montagne in an interview that aired Thursday morning on "Morning Edition." “I did what I thought was best for the country. I’m still very fond of the Clintons. I’ve reconciled with her. But with him — he wants to keep a grudge, that’s fine with me. I move on. I’m governor of New Mexico. I’m happy where I am.”

Richardson, a longtime Clinton ally who served in two top positions in Bill Clinton’s presidential administration, mounted his own campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. But despite surprisingly strong fundraising and some attention-getting ads, Richardson never got traction. When he dropped out of the race after poor showings in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, both Hillary Clinton and Obama arduously courted Richardson’s endorsement.

After he picked Obama over Clinton, Clinton backer James Carville called it “an act of betrayal” and compared the move to the biblical betrayal of Jesus by Judas Iscariot.

Bill Clinton, who had personally pleaded for Richardson to endorse his wife, was said to be especially incensed.

Richardson told Montagne he’s spoken to Hillary Clinton and that a fundraiser he held two months ago raised nearly $250,000 to help her retire the debt she accrued during her presidential campaign.

“She appreciated it. You know, we talked,” Richardson said. “Have I heard from President Clinton? No.” But, he added “I’m very comfortable with what I did, endorsing Sen. Obama.”

Readers' Comments (70)

I think we're seeing a very unfortunate side of Bill Clinton's personality this year. This thing he has against Richardson frankly is bull_hit and the clear remaining grudge he has against Obama is palpable. He has done his legacy no good at all by plainly playing the race card in the primaries. I know he wanted his wife to win but come on.

Bill is in danger of being made - if he isn't already - totally irrelevant in an Obama administration. He's been childish, petulant, and unhelpful - Hillary has been much better, although neither of them seem to be racking up frequent flier miles for the candidate of their party. They had their moment - it's about to be eclipse. This could have been avoided, but hubris, vanity, and jealously got in the way. It's their loss.

But, he added “I’m very comfortable with what I did, endorsing Sen. Obama.”

Bill Clinton is dumb like a fox.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

"Democracia USA and Voter Fraud

Voter fraud is running amok in this election. From Nevada to Ohio to Missuori to Indiana to Connecticut, and, now, to Florida. ACORN has been involved in most of these cases, but that isnt the only organization that's been violating election law and stiffiung the American people.

In the following video, shot after a recent Citizenship Ceremony here in South Florida, two Democracia USA canvassers are caught red handed tampering with Florida Voter Registration Forms:

The man caught tampering with the forms is asked what he's doing and he states that he is simply putting in his canvas ID number and Location at the tops of the forms. Obviously, from the video you can tell that this is not the case and that the man is filling in parts of the forms and checking boxes in same that he has no legal authority or right to do so. You can view the Florida Voter Registration Form right here and see for yourself.

Democracia USA is an organization dedicated to helping Hispanics become part of the election process. That's a good thing and I dont begrudge anyone, Hispanic or not, their right to participate and vote in any election. I do, however, have serious issues with the prostitution of the process for agenda driven gain.

It seems ethics and integrity are out the door in this election, and voter fraud isnt just illegally adding a few votes here and there, it is the usurption your voice "(babaloublog)>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.tTHE MSM NEVER REPORTS ON THIS.....

And in Florida...this does not even rate a response from the Police or the Press. Illegal Residents vote in any election in which they wish to participate. In Miami...they WISH to SACRIFICE LIVE ANIMALS in their Santeria (VooDoo) 'religous rites" so the Police Handbook now warns Policemen and women not to make "offensive remarks" when they see live goats and chickens being torn apart..and the "worshippers" smeared in the blood. PETA SEEMS NOT TO CARE EITHER.

YOU THINK I LIE? I DARE YOU TO GET A COPY OF THE MIMAI POLICE HANDBOOK. I DARE ANY ELITE ILLEGAL ALIEN ENABLING GROUP...LIKE POLITICO TO READ IT............................ONE DAY THE USA PUBLIC IS GOING TO PUSH BACK....

A fissure is one thing, but I am very worried that the rhetoric by the McCain camp is something that should be addressed by all parties. It has reached a level similar to that in Israel where someone thought they were doing God's work when he assasinated Yitzhak Rabin. The McCain rhetoric has reached that level and someone has got to speak to him. I don't think he would want that and he must get back to some kind of civility.

Bill made a terrific speech in Florida recently supporting Obama - saying McCain's and Obama's "policies are not even close". It was a rousing and passionate endorsement of Obama. A few more of those before election day will go a long way to getting him back in our hearts. We know he can do a lot of good for the country if he puts his mind to it. He can sway the undecideds in a New York minute.

I think the Democrats who think they have this election sewed up are wrong. I can't stand John McCain. I like Obama's trade Policies better than McCain. Obama does not strike me as black. He strikes me as Bi-Racial, which in a Navy Town is ...like so what???? I won't vote for Obama...because of the people around him...and those in the Tank for him.

Last night, after Lou Dobbs...which as usual..gave an intense hour on our economic meltdown. The People who watch Lou Know that our Trade Policy...So called Free Trade is the basis for our problems and it will not get better until we have a Fair Trade Policy...as we had until the New Robber Baron Wall Street Elites..are gone.

WE KNOW that FREE TRADE IS AN OLD DOGMA. We know that so called Free Trade has destroyed every nation that has embraced it by outsourcing it's manufactoring plants and jobs and becoming a service, dependent economy. Great Britian before the First World War went down the path it seems we must go down...and they have been NOT a World Power ever since.

Why is Free Trade..or The Dogma of Free Trade...or the Cult of Free Trade so bad? The Originial idea was to lift all nations economically. No trade barriers. No tariff. THE SAME WAGES PAID IN ALL NATIONS. BUT Our dear elites left off that part...they moved to China..where Workers make 50 cents an hour...gave them modern equipment and then told Americans Workers to 'compete'. There was NO BAILOUT FOR AMERICAN WORKERS. IT WAS QUIT WHINING AND RETRAIN. HEARD ANYONE TELL THE WALL STREET JOCKS WHO HAVE GUTTED THEIR COMPANIES TO 'RETRAIN'? NOPE. THE USELESS BLOOD SUCKERS HAVE OUR TREASURE....THEIR PROFITS WERE THEIR OWN....THEIR DEBTS ARE OURS...AND WHY ARE YOU NOT AS MAD AS I AM ABOUT IT? WHY ARE YOU VOTING FOR THAT SORRY SOT WHO VOTED TO GIVE THEM ONE PENNY OF OUR MONEY? WHY ARE NOT IN JAIL...CHARGED WITH THE CRIMES THEY COMMITTED?

and -------------------WE KNOW KARL MARX EMBRACED IT BECAUSE IT FORMETS ANGER AMONG CLASSES OF SOCIETY....IT OUTSOURCES A NATION'S MANUFACTORING CAPACITY IN THE SEARCH FOR EVER CHEAPER LABOR...IT WILL TOLERATE SLAVE LABOR..CHILD LABOR..PRISON LABOR...FREE TRADE IS LIKE ABSINTHE....THE DRUG IN THE NINETIES THEY HAD TO BAN BECAUSE IT KILLED THE RICH WHO WERE ADDICTED TO IT.....TOULOUSE LATREC....SOME CALL IT WORMWORD. THAT IS A GOOD NAME FOR FREE TRADE...WORMWOOD AND THE WORMS WHO PUSH IT ON A NOW PANIC STRICKEN WORLD.

SO..........AFTER THAT...WITH EXPERTS AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS...AND REPORTS ON BANKS AND SUCH...CAMPBELL BROWN COMES ON AND SHE IS INFURIATED...

iT SEEMS SOME OLD MAN SAID BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA . SOMEONE...USED HIS FULL NAME AT A CAMPAIGN RALLY FOR MCCAIN....THE EYE CANDY REPORTER IS JUST BESIDE HERSELF WITH ANGER.....SO C. BROWN.."THAT IS IT. " " IT IS OUT IN THE OPEN." " THIS IS RACE BAITING" " THIS IS GOING TO HAVE TO STOPPED?

Have all of these people gone insane? IT IS HIS NAME. WE HAVE LOTS OF ARABS IN MY CITY. MOST ARE CHRISTIAN. HUSSEIN IS NOT A CURSE WORD. IT IS AN HONORABLE DECENT NAME.

I love Bill Richardson. He is a champion for our state, and he made the right choice in endorsing Obama. He (Richardson) saw in Obama a brilliant man who could lead us into the future. Bill Clintow was just that when he was president. A bumper sticker floating around in the primaries said HILLARY AIN'T BILL. That says it all.

I think we're seeing a very unfortunate side of Bill Clinton's personality this year. This thing he has against Richardson frankly is bull_hit and the clear remaining grudge he has against Obama is palpable.

I completely disagree with you. While the DNC and other strict party line vultures promote the "party" at all costs and demand the same of all members, Bill Clinton has shown he will not go along to get along. Being attacked because he isn't showing "loyalty" like an old dog is b/s.

Bill Clinton outclasses Richardson by leaps and bounds. Let Richardson be content as Governor. I hope his state votes his butt out of office. Richardson is just another low life, slime ball, sleezy, dishonest politician. I have nothing but disgust for that Judas/Brutus creature.

For all you fans of the RCP poll average, RCP put out this notice today..

Use of Partisan Affiliated Polls in the RCP Poll Averages

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Starting October 11, and through the final weeks of Election 2008, RealClearPolitics will only be adding non-partisan affiliated polls to the RCP Poll Averages. Polls from PPP (D), Strategic Vision (R), along with any other partisan affiliated polls or pollsters that have been added before October 11 will remain in the RCP Averages until they are rolled out.

Richardson earned my respect during the campaign. It took courage to ignore the entreaties of his good friends and endorse Barack Obama.

Despite hurt feelings, Bill Clinton has championed the Democratic cause, and will be part of an important victory next month.

Maybe after Obama appoints Hillary Clinton to the Supreme Court, Bill Clinton can replace her in the Senate. The only other president in U.S. history to be impeached later became a U.S. senator. Bill could uphold that tradition.

ACORN Watch: 105% of Indianapolis Population Registred to Vote! By Michelle Malkin

Photoshop: Blind Mule..........................................

MISSOURI:

Officials in Missouri, a hard-fought jewel in the presidential race, are sifting through possibly hundreds of questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms submitted by an advocacy group that has been accused of election fraud in other states.

Charlene Davis, co-director of the election board in Jackson County, where Kansas City is, said the fraudulent registration forms came from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. She said they were bogging down work Wednesday, the final day Missourians could register to vote.

“I don’t even know the entire scope of it because registrations are coming in so heavy,” Davis said. “We have identified about 100 duplicates, and probably 280 addresses that don’t exist, people who have driver’s license numbers that won’t verify or Social Security numbers that won’t verify. Some have no address at all.”

The nonpartisan group works to recruit low-income voters, who tend to lean Democratic. Most polls show Republican presidential candidate John McCain with an edge in bellwether Missouri, but Democrat Barack Obama continues to put up a strong fight.

Jess Ordower, Midwest director of ACORN, said his group hasn’t done any registrations in Kansas City since late August. He said he was told three weeks ago by election officials that there were only about 135 questionable cards — 85 of them duplicates.

“They keep telling different people different things,” he said. “They gave us a list of 130, then told someone else it was 1,000.”

FBI spokeswoman Bridget Patton said the agency has been in contact with elections officials about potential voter fraud and plans to investigate.

CONNECTICUT:

The State Elections Enforcement Commission has opened an investigation into allegations that a community activist organization submitted at least 10 false voter-registration cards in Bridgeport.

One of the phony registrations was for a 7-year-old girl in the Marina Village housing complex, whose age was listed as 27 on the voter card.

Another registration came from a man who later said he couldn’t have completed the voter card purported to be his because he was in jail on the date of the document.

Joseph J. Borges, the city’s Republican registrar of voters, filed the complaint with state officials after months of local complaints on the tactics that ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, was regularly filing applications that were ruled ineligible.

In response, a Bridgeport leader of ACORN on Tuesday night called the charges “part of a concerted and coordinated campaign by conservatives and the GOP to attack and discredit ACORN.”

Actually, the “lazy crackheads” are doing the discrediting just fine all by themselves.

WISCONSIN:

Milwaukee County prosecutors Tuesday charged a convicted felon with illegally registering himself and others to vote between his conviction and his sentencing.

The complaint accuses Adam Mucklin, 22, of registering to vote in June, after he was convicted of battery in April, and after a judge told him he couldn’t vote as a convicted felon. Later in June, Mucklin signed up to work as a paid voter registrar for the Community Voters Project, something else he couldn’t do as a convicted felon, the complaint says.

A recent opinion from the staff of the state Government Accountability Board says no one convicted of a felony can ever serve as a registrar, a stricter standard than the previous interpretation that registrars only had to be eligible to vote.

Under Wisconsin law, felons can’t vote until after they have completed their sentences and are off probation or parole. For Mucklin, that would not be until Jan. 10, 2012, the complaint notes.

The group blamed inefficiency and lack of resources for problems such as being unable to spot duplicate voter-registration cards or cards that may have been filled out by workers to make quotas.

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, has turned in at least 65,000 cards to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in the last year. The board has investigated potentially fraudulent cards since August.

The group has faced similar inquiries in other large Ohio counties. And Nevada state authorities recently raided ACORN’s Las Vegas headquarters searching for evidence of fraud, according to the Associated Press.

Local representatives of the organization told Cuyahoga board members that they don’t have the resources to identify fraudulent cards turned in by paid canvassers who are told to register low- and moderate-income voters.

Cuyahoga election workers flagged about 50 names on suspicious cards. The cards were to register the same names, raising the possibility that canvassers shared information when trying to make quotas.

“This is not something you can catch with your internal controls, apparently,” said board member Sandy McNair at the meeting.

New voter registrations closed Monday in Lake County with possible record-breaking numbers and simmering allegations of fraud and racial discrimination.

Elections board Director Sally LaSota said more than 12,000 voter registration forms are waiting to be processed from recent days before the county knows how many potential voters are ready to cast ballots in the Nov. 4 general election.

“It may be a record,” she said.

Porter County has processed at least 3,500 voter applications since the spring primary in May, officials there said.

However, the large influx has brought new controversies.

LaSota said Monday representatives of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, a grassroots activist group conducting registration drives, dropped off 2,000 new voter applications last week in Lake County.

“About 1,100 are no good,” she said.

And this: More Voter Registration Shenanigans: Indianapolis Has 105% Of Its Population Registered To Vote

I hope Sarah Palin will start talking about this...You know John McCain won’t....Wouldn’t want to be labeled a RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACIST."(oneoldvet)